Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems to me that there are two approaches one could take with regard to a > firewall box. One is to run the same distribution as your workstations so > you > are good at managing it. The other is to run a different distribution in the > hope that both distributions don't have the same bug, EG you could run Debian > on your desktop and CentOS on your firewall.
for a firewall machine, only run the daemons that you really need, make sure iptables/netfilter rules are configured appropriately, and keep up with security-related package updates. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
